Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

Written, produced, and directed by Jamie Uys, the 1980 movie, The Gods Must Be Crazy, intertwines a trio of series, namely, a Bushman’s journey to the end of the earth to return a Coca Cola bottle to the gods, the romance between a clumsy scientist and a schoolteacher, and a group of terrorists on the run.

The film was produced in the most positive mood. Despite the fact that the Portokalous was a force to reckon with in terms of the possible union of Ian and Toula, the values they were forcing through were not harmful to anybody. Looking at their family solidarity and how they treated each other with respect based on their standards, could never suggest for anyone to be prejudiced against them. 

Daisy Granados starred Teresa resembles the contemporary Cuban women who make inadequately pathetic attempts to bring forth reasonable social changes in their living conditions. The 1979 film as a whole maintains relaxed and authentic scenes most of which take the audience throughout the worksites of Teresa and her husband Ramon (Adolfo Llaurado) with intent to allow enough scrutiny of Cuban society.

It is shown that for Muslims, the city of Jerusalem is sacred due to the special relationship the prophet Muhammad had with the city.  Sites such as the Dome of the Rock are very important historically for Muslims.  For Jews, the importance of many sites such as the Temple Wall and in fact the historical construction of the city itself is important to the national identity of the modern state of Israel as well as Judaism.

The video by Peter Jennings, Turning Point: Jerusalem Stories, creates a different angle to the conflicts in the Holy Land and what is currently occurring. Jennings provides basic information about how individuals live in Jerusalem, what is expected in terms of religion and how Jerusalem has become a Holy Land for three major religions of the world while providing a combination of the ancient and modern world in one area. 

The primary conflict is between traditional values and modern values, representing the universal struggle of women as they try to meet the expectations of society while trying to determine their own destiny. The time period allows for an exaggerated exploration of modern society, revealing the struggle through poignant stories of love and loss. The central themes come from admission by Ang Lee that he is obsessed with female repression.

Philosophers have long had theories about the nature of truth, many of them deciding that absolute truth cannot exist because each individual has their own versions of truth and reality, which become prisms through which any set of facts are viewed. These truth theories are on display in much of our legal cinema and literature, as these works accurately portray the biases that make absolute truth impossible to discern.

The movies discussed in the paper are How to Die in Oregon, Like Crazy, Senna, Kinyarwanda, Another Earth, Andy and Zach, and The Hunter and the Swan. These movies were exceptional on their own, and some of them even won the best awards for the season. A well-analyzed description has been further provided for each of these movies.

Even the judge drones his boredom during jury instructions. The many ethical dilemmas, values, and concepts depicted in this film include: Eleven of the jurors voted guilty in the first polling without the benefit of an evidence review.

The director Ang Lee had made this movie with a complete orientation on the gay relationships which was gaining importance in the 1990s.In this movie the key character Winston, the Taiwanese immigrant, and the American man Simon, is sharing a gay relationship with each other. Here the hindrance is emerging from Winston’s family who are orthodox.

Revisiting our main points, we have here analyzed the effective communication strategies from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, including a description, and an analysis of the following scenes:  the Greek engagement party, Toula meeting Ian’s parents, and Toula’s wedding day.  The most important lesson which I learned from this film was that major differences can be overcome if one tries hard enough to succeed in relationships. 

The Sundance Film Festival is a wonderful experience with a number of interesting and emotion invoking films being shown. Every individual should spend time watching some of them in order to gain a different view on thoughts recurring over society altogether.

The 1932 movie is based on a social context that entailed people having an immense disliking of gangster life. During this period, there were widespread opinions that gangster films were glorifying violence, and therefore, they aimed to corrupt the minds of young children and youth. This was highly publicized during the era of actual gangsters.

The Lion King is a movie replete with an abundance of characters affiliated to varied styles of leadership and followership and hence offers much instruction and insight. Yet, it is also a story that depicts the harms of being unresponsive to the overall organizational politics in a setup. A student of management can learn leadership skills from almost anywhere, and especially movies tend to be rich sources of influence and instruction. 

The film industry has been existence for many years which makes it one of the oldest industries together with the music industry.  The characters in the gangster films strive to achieve wealthy status through illegal means such as robbery. Each character in a gangster movie aims at achieving the best price or reward which may be either money or assets.

Design is inspired by domains as diverse as ideas in psychology, science, fine arts, and the growth of new technologies. The study of the history of graphic design can give inspiration. This essay demonstrates how the graphic design developed or where the idea of ‘graphic design’ came from. Graphic design has functioned under identities. 

Real leadership will create a truthful story rather than hide behind a convenient lie. This is the primary focus on which the concept of leadership is explored. The film defines leadership as an honor and duty within the context of the military and in the end when Dawson and Downey are vindicated but still kicked out of the military it is Dawson’s monologue that clarifies the issue.

The week focused on resolving challenges in the fashion media and marketing of Fashion products. We learned the basics of marketing our fashion products. The week’s topics included experimental marketing. Likewise, consumer focus was emphasized.

It should be noted that the basis of this presentation is the address of Nora because she has evaluated essay film genre from a historical point of view. The development as observed in this genre is magnificent. At the same time, it asks for a theoretical contribution to understanding the characteristics of the essay film genre. 

The modern way of life tends to consider each and every human being as equal to the others and therefore, it does not give anybody authority and government on the basis of bloodlines. The approach is still in the middle phases of development because economic power is the source of political power in the modern era of the 21st century.

Fascinated by the imaginations of festivals and carnivalesque, Bruegel made a picture, which presented a Battle between Carnival and Lent. The picture is basically a depiction of a festival that was celebrated within some parts of Europe, more specifically in the Netherlands. The picture is famous for the features that it exhibits of the times in which the event took place.

The critics observe varied factors and ideas expressed in the film that lead to their substantive evidences. The film presents an expository feature well documented and convincing; however, marred by factual flaws and ultimately misrepresented combination of the film and web presentations. Assessing this film from an impartial standing, the story itself is remarkably fascinating, tantalizing and deserves its existence.

This study reveals that although the history of Egyptian cinema cannot be studied completely by keeping one movie in mind, we still can find relevant analogies in the movie Awkat Farage, which is a social depiction of the downfall of youth in society and has all the elements in it that are responsible for the downfall and uprise of an industry.

Some of the similarities in photographing styles of the two photographers include shooting beautiful pictures, presenting social situation of the people, provision of props and backdrops, and regard to the subject. Some of the differences in the photographing styles as expounded in the paper are use of color, use of lighting, visibility of patterns, emphasis on environmental images.

The objective will also try understanding the potential opportunities of the blacks in the film industry. It will also recognize the challenges that the black people face in the film industry and formulate possible solutions to overcome these challenges. The overall aim of the paper will be to bring to attention the need to have fair representation for both the black and white people in the film industry.  

In the Jewish faith, there is a principle that is popularly referred to as the Tikkum Olam. Tikkum Olam can be translated to mean repair the world. Among the followers of the Jewish faith, this tenet makes it their duty to be involved in repairing the world where they live. It does not matter how you do it. What is important is that you take part in repairing the universe.

Conceivably, Tokyo Sonata is one of the contemporary films attempting to reveal the dysfunctional families in the gated Japanese community characterized by communication and interaction problems. The award-winning film directed in 2008 by Kurosawa Kiyoshi, uses various narratives to put into perspective a family in turmoil and the struggle to find happiness and solace in the unfair life (Seret, 2011, pp. 91).

The goddess is worshipped as the embodiment of ultimate compassion who sought to help all the living beings to achieve spiritual afflation and deliver them from suffering and samsara circle. She is often referred to as Mother Mary of the East as she performs functions and represents the image similar to those of the Virgin Mary in Christianity. 

With all the obstacles, there is still optimism that the industry continues to prosper both at the domestic and international levels. Many filmmakers still feel that Iranian cinema has a steady future. Many feel that if censorship was to be removed, it would allow the filmmakers to be diversified without the worry of their films being banned or the fear of facing arrest.

Baudry points out that the power of illusion in cinema is more based on the content of films than in the instruments and institutions which constitute and exhibit them. An intriguing effect, explaining the vital facets in the cinema world connected to Baudry’s theory namely the issues of spectatorship, identification, subjectivity and ideology will be the topics of concern.

In Crouching Tiger, the three women are the film’s main stars. They are of different ages and hail from different social-economic backgrounds. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has men and romance but the women in the film are not reduced to their sexuality nor do what is anticipated of them by the social order of the 1700s. 

In the pieces, we see persons desperate to get some things going in their lives, or eager to be in love, to make a name for themselves, discover their true identities, make money, go to places, create new ties, and at the same time cherish old relationships and experiences (the feeling of nostalgia is therefore widely visualized in these films).

The directive leadership approach in expedition teams is believed to limit the adaptability of the individual members in the mountainous environments. For example, the 1996 Everest Disaster is connected to directive leadership and teamwork failure, which led to the death of eight climbers (Hornbein and Doug 65). 

John in the Die Hard movie represents those people who go through hardships but still maintain their focus that in turn helps them to overcome all the challenges and ultimately obtain their goal. The audience is intrigued by the situation where John must handle the hostage situation under the authority of the Villain, who is a terrorist.

My career aspiration is to be a film critic, based on the interest of exploring theoretical issues in the film. A film critic is inarguably and perfectly in consonance with the line of interest chosen. The theoretical issues provide a wider base of knowledge and power of arguments to offer valid and relevant critic to any piece of cinema art. 

Both the film and novel brings out a social environment that is highly profiled and burdened with class struggles and pretensions. Darcy is portrayed as an individual who is filled with haughtiness, and, previously fails to imagine that Elizabeth is worthy of him since she comes from a family that is not highly esteemed.

The former servant of Rebecca, Mrs. Danvers, also dedicates herself to make the unnamed heroine feel inadequate in relation to Rebecca. Therefore, this leads her to seek out ways of improving herself to make herself worthy of the love of Maxim, which in turn brings about her desire to recreating herself in the image of Rebecca.

In conclusion, it is evident that there are a number of similarities in the films produced by Quentin Tarantino. In regard to Django Unchained and death proof, Tarantino depicts themes of revenge, love, social terrorism, and violence. In addition to this, the two movies have a lot of humor that helps to bring a balance with the violence depicted. 

Since Bambi, The Lion King happened to be the very first full-length Disney movie that relied on nonhuman characters. A great deal of the voice acting work in the movie The Lion King was done by an array of celebrated and accomplished actors like James Earl Jones, Nathan Lane, Jeremy Irons, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Matthew Broderick, Rowan Atkinson, and Whoopi Goldberg. 

Sherlock Holmes is a film that shows anachronism to the fullest. At the introduction, a constable is seen loading a plastic shotgun shell in the breach of his shotgun. These were introduced in 1960 and they only used paper or brass in 1890. Sherlock Holmes's shirt also has an attached collar only introduced in 1929.

Although Jackie Brown failed to become a massive influence like Pulp Fiction, it perfected Tarantino's directorial style with his endless intertextual references to other films, songs, literary works and various elements of popular culture, which won him glory and made him one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of American cinema.    

There are many books, art, television, games, theater, and other media based on the plots of science fiction. Science fiction sometimes gets synonymous with the broader definition of speculative fiction. In organizational or marketing contexts, it is the encompassing creative stuff comprising of fantasy and horror; that incorporates the elements which are not available or accessible in reality.

As the paper outlines, the concept of childhood has been the center stage of contemporary media. Childhood has been defined using various multidisciplinary viewpoints whereby biologists, physiologists, sociologists, and psychologists have given their explanations concerning the meaning of the concept of childhood.  

However, there is something of a misnomer in this assumption in that many of these feature films are actually produced or distributed by smaller subsidiaries of the larger houses, enabling them to be created with smaller budgets, are given lower budget marketing campaigns, and smaller releases.

A sergeant takes him immediately and he subjects him to bodily torture to reveal what he knows about the gold. The disappointment they get is that Moth does not speak anything concerning the diamond, and the sergeants go further to poison him to push him to speak out. This shows how socially the society of Sofia in Bulgaria suffered in the hands of the rich bandits

Through this movie, she tells the story of a young optimistic couple, Alex and Nica. From the initial cuts of the movie, the couple has a level of intimacy as the producer highlights that they are sexually involved. However, it is evident that despite this intimacy, the couple takes time in understanding each other well.

The main distributors of Kahaani were Viacom 18 Motion Pictures. Viacom 18 Motion Pictures has been around for quite some time now dealing with Indian movies. Some of the famous movies that have done business with Viacom are Players, Son of Sardar and Tanu weds Manu. The movie was a success at the box office.

After some time, Wei-Tung’s guardians settled on traveling to their son’s place with the objective of preparing an expensive nuptial for him. Simon and Wei-Tung refused to disclose the secret to his guardians, since his dad, who was a former officer in the Army forces, had at that moment just recuperated from heart disease.

Even when someone is lost in the scenario of the movie, one can clearly detect good characters with big hearts from the oftentimes one dimensional bad guys. This war movie consists of both cruelties and kindness. The first level of kindness that this takes place is with regards to the brotherly relations that are evident between the men of the company and platoon.

Adolf Burger was portrayed as the idealist in the bunch who was willing to sabotage completion of their attempts at duplicating the dollar. Burger centers on the moral dilemma of he and his wife’s activism as they were both arrested for printing anti-Nazi materials as the movie reveals. The intentional imperfection in the collotype made it impossible.